ACTA was finalised last week but controversies remain, with research warning it could “create significant barriers to international trade, especially in generic medicines”.
Shipments of drugs that do not violate patent rights in the exporting or importing countries should not be seized in transit or labeled as counterfeit, as occurred recently, according to health advocates.
Singapore's Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI) will commit
$7.5bn (€63.1bn) over the next five years to drive R&D growth
in key industry areas such as biomedical science and increase
national R&D spending to 3 per...
Dutch company Organon has upgraded its manufacturing facilities in
China in a move that will for the first time allow it to create
pharmaceuticals for local consumption.
A prominent US law professor from Stanford University has called
for an international treaty on sharing scientific and technological
information, to be based on the arrangements already agreed for
free trade under the World Trade...
